‘Big Brother’ Week 9: Blockbuster Winner & Evicted Houseguest Revealed

This week of Big Brother is nothing if not messy. It started out on Tuesday with Rachel Reilly‘s elimination from the game after failing to complete the maze in the White Locust challenge. Then it proceeded with regular scheduled programming as a Head of Household was crowned, nominees were set, and a Power of Veto winner took themselves off the block. Now, another houseguest left the game, leaving only seven left in the game.

Lauren Domingue won HOH for the second time after completing the maze in the shortest amount of time. With half of the house being her allies, she didn’t have many options for people to put up.

The Blockbuster continues this week, so she had to select three houseguests for the block. Morgan Pope confided in Vince Panaro and was afraid that she was going to be put up. She shared that he made a mistake picking Lauren to go next in the maze, and if he had picked her, Rachel would still be in the competition.

When it came time for the nomination ceremony, Lauren put up Morgan, Ashley Hollis, and Clifton “Will” Williams. She shared that she didn’t have a close relationship with them and wished them all luck in the veto competition.

The Veto competition was the classic BB Comics. In this competition, six houseguests had to climb a ladder and grab onto a small hand glider. They had to look into the glass wall as they floated by and figure out not only the order the comics went into, but also which one was correct out of the two options.

 

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Lauren, Vince, Morgan, Will, Ashley, and Ava Pearl played in the competition. Lauren didn’t want to win because she wasn’t sure if she wanted her nominees to stay the same or try to backdoor Keanu Soto. She wasted a few minutes double-checking her work when she knew she was right. Morgan begged Vince to use the veto on her if he won. He didn’t want to upset Lauren, so he threw the competition and took longer than he needed to.

When it came down to the results, Ashley was in third at 20 minutes. Lauren clocked in at 13 minutes. Morgan came out on top with 12 minutes. There were only a few seconds separating Lauren and Morgan.

Morgan decided to use the Power of Veto on herself and remove herself from the block. With only her allies left to nominate — Keanu, Vince, Ava, and Kelley Jorgenson — Lauren made the hard decision of nominating Keanu. He was angry because he kept Lauren safe during his HOH reign last week.

On Thursday’s episode, Lauren cried over putting Keanu on the block, and Vince and Morgan’s relationship crumbled as she was mad he picked Lauren over her.

When it came time for the Blockbuster, the three nominees had to untangle a rope from a jungle gym apparatus. Whoever could untangle the most rope and put the key on the end of it into the box on the other end of the backyard, took themself off the block. Keanu came out victorious and left Ashley and Will on the block.

Rachel came back to do her eviction interview with host Julie Chen Moonves. But, she is not coming back into the game.

With only five votes to evict, it came really close. Will was evicted in a 3 to 2 vote, becoming the second member of the Jury. He said he was told he was leaving that morning and didn’t hold grudges against anyone. Will knew he was too likable, so his houseguests had to get him out while they could.

Find out who will become the next HOH on Wednesday in a special two-hour episode. Nominations will also be set, as well as the Power of Veto. Big Brother is not on on Sunday, due to the Emmys. Then, on Thursday, a special two-hour Double Eviction episode takes place, taking seven down to five.